I’m the West Coast representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. I was a political columnist for SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle online) from 2004-2008. I've written for the Algemeiner, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Independent Journal Review, American Thinker, FrontPage Magazine, Jihad Watch, Family Security Matters, Accuracy In Media, Newsbusters, Israel National News, Jewish Press, J-The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, and many others.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Muddled Mess of Middle East Studies

I've got a new Campus Watch article up at The American Thinker on a Stanford University symposium I attended earlier this month on the "state of Middle East studies." Speakers included Columbia University's Hamid Dabashi, UC Berkeley's Minoo Moallem, and the University of Washington's Arzoo Osanloo.

The symposium ended up being a primer on all that's wrong with the field Middle East studies today. And in some respects, the results turned out to be more ridiculous than ominous. As I put it:

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I’m the West Coast representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. I was a political columnist for SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle online) from 2004-2008. I've written for the Algemeiner, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Independent Journal Review, American Thinker, FrontPage Magazine, Jihad Watch, Family Security Matters, Accuracy In Media, Newsbusters, Israel National News, Jewish Press, J-The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, and many others.